Old Losantiville, gone gone
under a city of aluminum, steel
LED lights and fake boat whistles
piped through speakers:
leaving, I give myself leave
to remember my geography
my own way
Category Archives: Autumn
map annotations now void
this gray city: all I have left
an outdated memory map
there are no ghosts to greet me
ask where I’ve been
all the old trailmarkers erased
by wind and rain and time
my own ghost shriveled up and dead
somewhere on Main Street
and on the memory map a note:
here be dragons
Autumn 2025: 20-22
20.
the seasonal temporary heat
interrupted by the pounding rhythms
of approaching boots
21.
a manufactured state of emergency
the screams of children on burning playgrounds
22.
today, today play with the fire
light the burners long abandoned
in soul boilers